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Autumn is no time to lie alone
Murasaki Shikibu / Novelist
Autumn
Lying
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There is more here than meets the eye.
Murasaki Shikibu / Novelist
Appearance
Eye
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How strange a thing is the heart of man!
Murasaki Shikibu / Novelist
Men
Heart
Strange
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Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.
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Inspirational
Foolish
Fortune
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Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.
Murasaki Shikibu / Novelist
Body
Moving
Soul
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It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.
Murasaki Shikibu / Novelist
Adventure
Unexplored
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There are as many sorts of women as there are women.
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Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.
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Dream
Dark
Real
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Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
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Colour
Crayon
World
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In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
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Truth
Gossip
People
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farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.
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Ears
Farewell
Monsters
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Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.
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Family
Difficult
Intimacy
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People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.
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Deals
Interesting
People
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No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure
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Heart
Long
Penance
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Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
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Night
Tears
Voice
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A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.
Murasaki Shikibu / Novelist
Dream
Endless
Night
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The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
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First Love
Memories
Sleep
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Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know but by report.
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Flower
Fruit
Reports
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You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.
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Country
Looks
Sky
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It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed
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Action
Sections
Way
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No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
Murasaki Shikibu / Novelist
Art
Effort
Rewards
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There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.
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Men
Littles
Want
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Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.
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Age
Travel
Recovery
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One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome
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Accounts
Handsome
Liberty
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How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze
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Air
Heart
Judging
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Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.
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Family
Children
Real
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I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's own experience...has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart.
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Art
Passionate
Writing
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It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.
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Art
Feelings
Useless
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In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.
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Ambition
Book
Reign
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Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.
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Jealousy
Long
Mean
Silence
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys.
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Confused
Fashion
Real
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